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Embrace

Samantha Culp & Andrea Hill

Curator

Los Angeles

Both separately and together, Samantha Culp and Andrea Hill curate and produce innovative artist-led projects, most recently under the banner of their creative agency Paloma Powers.

Born and raised in Los Angeles, Culp recently returned after a decade in greater China. Her writing has appeared in publications such as Artforum, New York Times T Magazine, and LEAP (艺术节) and she has curated projects for Impakt Festival, Design Shanghai, and the Los Angeles Art Book Fair.

Hill was a founding team member and Creative Director of online auction house Paddle8, and her writing has appeared in Aperture, Performa Magazine, and Collectorspace, Istanbul. As a curator, she has also produced exhibitions for galleries (The Goma, Tanja Grunert Gallery), museums (Matadero Madrid), and universities (Wesleyan's Zilkha Gallery).

About kyttenjanae

kyttenjanae is the avatar with a human connection

kyttenjanae is a media artist and online avatar who lives and works in Los Angeles. She previously studied media arts at the University of California, where she graduated in 2014 with a BA. The artist is interested in the cross section of experimental animation, technology and interactivity. This is reflected in her tools, which include a variety of programmes such as Cinema4D, Blender, Unity3D, and Processing, as well as live interactive visuals for shows and concerts. kyttenjanae's work has been shown internationally at the New New Wight, the Irish Museum of Modern Art, FILE Sao Paulo 2015, Everything is Festival etc.
The artwork that kyttenjanae has created for Absolut Art will explore themes surrounding connection and growth. She aims to remove barriers that viewers may have in understanding her work, such as complexity and subtlety. Instead, she hopes to trigger familiar human emotions that can be universally understood.